Two more mountain deaths add to deadly week

Two German mountain climbers have been found dead on the Bietschhorn mountain in canton Valais. The deaths come days after six people died in two separate incidents on Monte Rosa. The 29-year-old man and 28-year-old woman, who lived in Valais, had left the Baltschiederklause hut early on Saturday morning attempting to climb the 3,934-metre (12,906ft) Bietschhorn and then descend via the Bietschhorn hut, according to Valais police. They were reported missing on Monday and their corpses were found on Wednesday. In a separate accident on Monday, three climbers died near Switzerland’s highest mountain, Monte Rosa, less than 24 hours after a collapsed snow cornice sent three other mountaineers plunging to their deaths. Two of the climbers who died on Monday morning were attempting to summit the 4,092-metre Pollux peak when they slipped on an ice sheet and fell several hundred metres. The other was on the way to the Castor peak in the same group of mountains.